AfterEllen has an article about how Emily Blunt has said that she wants to be a gay icon (you can
go here to read the article).
My question is, what exactly
IS a
gay icon now? Is it the same thing that it was 10 or 20 years ago? I definitely don't view Emily Blunt's career so far as that of a gay icon, at least not in the
traditional sense. Are our views of what makes a gay icon changing? Is Blunt perhaps not on her way to being a gay icon, but maybe a
lesbian icon? I think that it's possible that we're coming to a point where we can have distinct lesbian icons. To me, that's a very positive thing. It's a recognition of the difference between lesbians and gay men. While we're all under the big umbrella term of 'gay'...there are obviously differences between gay men and lesbians. I think that recognising a separate category of 'lesbian icons' would be demonstrating that we realise that gay men and lesbians aren't exactly the same, and we want to better understand
and celebrate the differences.
Because diversity is just rad like that
Comments (3)
umm i dont know a single gay man that doesnt love and defend Lady GaGa with all their heart, I think that she is either already or becoming a gay icon
Does Ellen DeGeneres count as a lesbian icon? As for a gay one..I don't know. I wonder why being a gay man is considered less taboo than being a lesbian..
-Kunoichi
@KrazeeKunoichi009 - I think that Ellen totally counts.